Jenny Levine, I am having trouble figuring out how to roll back all the spam/vandalism here. I seem to only be able to "rollback" the one last edit, but some spam spans 2 or 3 edits. Thought I should let you know. --[[User:LegitimateAndEvenCompelling|LegitimateAndEvenCompelling]] 21:52, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Jenny Levine, I am having trouble figuring out how to roll back all the spam/vandalism here. I seem to only be able to "rollback" the one last edit, but some spam spans 2 or 3 edits. Thought I should let you know. --[[User:LegitimateAndEvenCompelling|LegitimateAndEvenCompelling]] 21:52, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

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- Thanks, LAEC. I've been offline for a few days but will be removing all of the spam over the next 24 hours. It does get difficult when the spambots repeatedly hit one page. JFYI, if you go to the history of the page and compare the last good version and the first bad one, you can then do a single rollback.<br />

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:- Thanks, LAEC. I've been offline for a few days but will be removing all of the spam over the next 24 hours. It does get difficult when the spambots repeatedly hit one page. JFYI, if you go to the history of the page and compare the last good version and the first bad one, you can then do a single rollback.<br />

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::Oh. I'll try it. And I see these spambots on other wikis too. It's a shame. --[[User:LegitimateAndEvenCompelling|LegitimateAndEvenCompelling]] 11:44, 8 May 2007 (CDT)

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Hi, Ed!

I should have known you'd get in here so quickly! Good to see you :-) Jenny Levine 08:34, 15 November 2006 (CST)

Jenny - is there a delicious or flickr tag we're using for this event? I have some bookmarks to bring with me & want to be sure there's some common ground.

(suggest something like nla?)

Ed

How about if we use nla2006 since they might hold another one someday? Amazingly, that doesn't seem to be taken in delicious, flickr, or technorati! Let me know if you add the wiki as a bookmark, as I'll do it if you don't. Thanks!

Was Prominent Notice Lacking?

Dear Shifted Librarian,

I admire your efforts to help make librarians more technically savvy, among other things. And this wiki site you have largely created is really great. But, I may have missed something, I did not see prominent notice of this wiki during the underlying event. I would have expected a link on the ALA's main page to this wiki for the 2 days the event was actually taking place. Right? Perhaps with your tech skills you could convince the powers that be that such a thing might be a good idea. Maybe, I don't know. Just an idea. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling 19:05, 12 December 2006 (CST)

Dear LegitimateAndEvenCompelling,

Actually, one piece of the answer is that this is partially my fault. Some background: the event was hosted by ALA President Leslie Burger, not ALA itself (this includes paying for the summit, as well as convening it). As ALA President, Leslie asked ALA to host the wiki, which we did. The main link to it is from her President's page at http://lb.princetonlibrary.org/ .

On the ALA website, the page that lists our blogs, wikis, RSS, etc. is not easy to update and only one person has access to do this. So we are in the process of converting it to a wiki in order to make it easier to keep up with our growing list of 2.0-ish tools. I've been building it during the last few weeks, and it's almost ready. It is under construction at http://wikis.ala.org/readwriteconnect/ and is almost ready to go live. I just need to finish the RSS page, and then we'll link to it from the home page.

So if nothing else, there would have been a link to the wiki one click away from the home page if I'd been able to finish that project sooner. In regards to a link directly from the home page, I'm not sure what the policy/procedure is for linking to presidential events. I'll bring this up at the next meeting of the Web Editorial Board, which is the group that decides what links rotate on the home page. Thanks for the suggestion.

You're welcome. I bet you'll start getting a lot more hits and a lot more contributions of ideas and the snowball will grow from there. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling 21:58, 12 December 2006 (CST)

Trouble Rolling Back Vandalism/Linkspam

Jenny Levine, I am having trouble figuring out how to roll back all the spam/vandalism here. I seem to only be able to "rollback" the one last edit, but some spam spans 2 or 3 edits. Thought I should let you know. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling 21:52, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

- Thanks, LAEC. I've been offline for a few days but will be removing all of the spam over the next 24 hours. It does get difficult when the spambots repeatedly hit one page. JFYI, if you go to the history of the page and compare the last good version and the first bad one, you can then do a single rollback.